KLM B737 near Norwich on Apr 28th 2015, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: April 28, 2015 / 13:18:00 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 28, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
KLM

Flight number
KL-1277

Aircraft Registration
PH-BGR

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-700

ICAO Type Designator
B737

A KLM Boeing 737-700, registration PH-BGR performing flight KL-1277 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Edinburgh,SC (UK) with 99 people on board, was enroute at FL400 about 60nm northeast of Norwich,EN (UK) when the crew reported an engine (CFM56) failure, shut the engine down, began to drift the aircraft down and turned around to return to Amsterdam. The aircraft landed safely on Amsterdam's runway 18C about 50 minutes after leaving FL400.

The airline confirmed an engine failure.

A replacement Embraer ERJ-190 registration PH-EZW reached Edinburgh with a delay of 3 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 28, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
KLM

Flight number
KL-1277

Aircraft Registration
PH-BGR

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-700

ICAO Type Designator
B737

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